bowstring

English

Noun

bowstring (plural bowstrings)

1. the string of an archer's bow

Translations

string of an archer's bow

Chinese: Mandarin: 弓弦 (gōngxián)

Czech: tětiva (cs) f. Icelandic: bogastrengur (is) m.

Verb

bowstring (third-person singular simple present bowstrings, present participle bowstringing, simple past and past participle bowstrung or bowstringed)

1. (transitive) to strangle with a bowstring
   • 1850, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade":

     When the day broke ... it was high time for her to get up and be bowstrung—a thing very little more pleasant than hanging, only a trifle more genteel.